Security forces massed in the flashpoint province of Daraa, where demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime first erupted six months ago, activists said on Monday. “More than 30 buses carrying members of the security forces on Sunday night entered Dael (village), where they have since arrested 45 people,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The massive deployment came after protests were held across Syria on Sunday, said the Britain-based Observatory. A 26-year-old man died of his wounds after being among a group of people whom security forces shot at the night before in the town of Irbin, near Damascus.
Elsewhere, security forces also fired at hundreds of demonstrators in the towns of Qusayr and Talbisseh, in central Homs province, said the activist group. The forces conducted a campaign of arrests in Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, eastern Deir Ezzor and the coastal cities of Latakia and Banias, it added. Opponents of President Assad vowed on Sunday to overthrow his regime. “We need to end the
tyrannical security regime. We must overthrow the tyranny and the security (agents),” Hassan Abdel Azim, a senior member of the opposition National Coordinating Committee for Democratic change, told reporters.
